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Monthly Archives: September 2015

Monday 7th September Miles: 43 With a few days to kill before heading back to Eric’s parent’s house, we have decided to do a short 3 day round trip in The Netherlands. We will head north and then turn west towards the coast and follow it down, back into Belgium. As we set off this…

Saturday 5th September Rest day Today we would be eating waffles… I mean… seeing Brussels. From the start I had a good feeling about Brussels. It was mainly because famous Belgian foods include waffles, chocolate and chips (French fries were actually invented by the Belgians, who are, I am told, a bit annoyed that France…

Wednesday 2nd September Miles: 41 Once again we woke up to a cool morning mist. Without the sun there is now a definite chill in the air, reminding me of when we set off in April (except now we are lacking our gloves, hats and warm weather clothes. Oh dear!). The best way to warm…

Sunday 30th August Miles: 27 I had never really thought about visiting Luxembourg, but since taking a route along the Mosel river had sent us in that direction, we thought it made sense to take a look. This morning everything was in a cloud, including our washing line. So our cycle shorts weren’t dry, but…

Wednesday 26th August Miles: 56 Today’s cycling was very simple: follow that there river. So we did… It was a nice sunny day. Though we did notice the first tinge of orange amongst the trees – a reminder that autumn is on its way. At a town called Koblenz we turned away from the Rhine and…